For a country its size, Nicaragua set a lot of swivel chairs spinning in
the U.S. last week. The same day that three American diplomats expelled
from Nicaragua landed at Washington's National Airport, 21 Nicaraguan
consular officials were ordered to leave the U.S. by the Reagan
Administration. That same day as well, a House committee voted to cut
off covert aid to anti-Sandinista guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua and
based in Honduras. On Friday, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone stopped
in Nicaragua to meet with members of the...